Nicki Minal Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma Beefing
On Thursday night, over two weeks after Remy Ma dropped "ShETHER," Nicki Minaj responded to the direct shots from her fellow New York MC on "No Frauds." The song marks Nicki's lyrical entry into a beef that, in recent months, went from subliminal barbs to an all-out state of war. But the history of Nicki and Remy's relationship extends back much further.
For the last decade, the two maintained a friendly competition: in the early aughts, Remy was the undisputed Queen of New York, while Nicki was the hungry upward-and-comer. Minaj's rising through the ranks of rap, and her crossover success, occurred while Remy was serving a six-year judgement for accidentally shooting her friend. At present, in the 18 months since her release, Remy's career has seen a resurgence and, once over again, the dynamic has shifted. The timeline below traces the development of Nicki and Remy'south contentious human relationship.
July 2007: Nicki Minaj called out "that bitch with the crown" on her Playtime Is Over record.
Looking back, it seems articulate that this was the outset. On a freestyle, commonly known every bit "Dirty Money," from her 2007 Playtime Is Over mixtape, Nicki went in over Terror Team's "Yeah Yes Aye" instrumental. "Tell that bitch with the crown to run it like Chris Chocolate-brown," she raps. "She won 3 rounds, I'mma need a hundred grand/ Oh, y'all ain't know? Bet you lot bitches know now."
The lines were subliminal, but Remy'south status as the reigning queen at the time, coupled with the fact that the freestyle was rapped over a Terror Squad instrumental, led some, including Remy herself, to wonder if the lines were meant as a more straight shot.
Summer 2007: Remy confronted Nicki about the perceived diss at her mixtape release political party.
Remy heard Nicki's words loud and clear and wasn't virtually to let them slide. While incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correction Facility in 2010, Remy discussed Nicki's freestyle in an interview. Remy remembered confronting Nicki about the lines at the release party for her mixtape. "To this day I think information technology was stab at me," she said. "That'southward what you lot exercise in rap, and I'one thousand absurd with that."
December 2007: A rumor spread that Nicki and Remy were romantically involved.
Cliffy Barz'due south 2007 video entitled "Remy Ma Ex Lover Speaks!!!" is a bizarre relic of mid-aughts YouTube. The video shows a woman who claims to have been in a relationship with Remy. The video'due south subject slightly resembled Nicki and a rumor that the two had been romantically involved took off, and so much and then that both rappers later on had to publicly deny the false claims on multiple occasions.
Baronial 2014: Remy said how proud she is of Nicki's success in post-prison interview.
After serving six years, Remy was released from prison and went on a printing run. In an interview with Hot 97, Remy discussed a conversation that she had with Nicki, calling the Queens rapper "a wonderful woman." Remy too said that she's proud of Nicki's success and explained that she wouldn't "come at her crazy" because she didn't believe in fierce down "a successful blackness female that's doing what she'south supposed to exist doing."
March 2015: Remy sent some subliminals on her "Truffle Butter Remix"
Remy Ma sent shots at unnamed adult female rapper in a 2015 freestyle of Nicki'due south "Truffle Butter" instrumental. "People go on saying, 'Rem, you need to drop a record'/I'one thousand like in a minute allow me trunk bitch's records," she raps. Remy besides spits, "She a lil hoe, black eyes like a raccoon/ Knockout, leave her snorin'/ leave your head full of claret, girl you should join a rap coiffure/ 'cause equally a soloist you boring." While Remy mentions no names, the line seems to reference Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne's "Knockout" single, which was released while Remy was locked up and marked Nicki's first entry into the Hot 100.
June 2016: Remy congratulated Nicki on winning Best Female person Hip Hop Artist at the BET Awards.
At the 2016 BET Awards, Nicki Minaj took home the Female Hip Hop Artist accolade, equally she had for the previous 7 years. Remy was likewise nominated the honour but took to Twitter post-obit the show to congratulate Nicki on her win. Nicki, in turn, responded with gratitude.
September 2016: The BET Hip-Hop Awards were another story...
Remy Ma joined her husband Papoose and others for a BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher. During her freestyle, Remy over again took aim at a fellow woman MC, rapping "Take away they stylist they don't know what style is."
November 2016: Fatty Joe and Remy Ma released "Money Showers."
In the lead upward to their collaborative album, Fat Joe and Remy Ma shared the single "Money Showers." On the track, Remy steers the conversation back to the topic of rap royalty. "Bowwow claiming she the queen, what? Non hardly/Who the fuck gave you your crown, bitch? Steve Harvey?"
Nov 2016: Nicki might have fired back on "Black Barbies."
V days later on the release of "Money Showers," Nicki shared her remix to Rae Sremmurd'south viral single "Blackness Beatles." On "Black Barbies," she raps, ""She said she got a striking record, I said, 'Ooh shit!'/ Picked upwardly my phone 'crusade I had to call 'Bullshit!'/ These bitches havin' nightmares of my new shit/ These bitches pussy and they don't ever exercise shit."
At the time, fans speculated that the lines were directed at Remy, citing Nicki'south references to the success of "All The Way Upwards" and the phone call following her release.
December 2016: Remy appeared on Hot 97 and rapped "Wanted to be an icon/ Concluded up like Akon."
Remy and Papoose stopped by Funkmaster Flex's radio prove in December, and Remy hopped on the mic to deliver some lines she had written that day. Remy seemed to reference Nicki's pop aspirations and her use of auto-melody, rapping, ""Wanted to be an icon/ Ended up like Akon." She as well referenced a popular Nicki catchphrase: "All this talk near my son and your son/I'm hot and your whole world revolve around me — bitch, I am the sun."
Dec 2016: Remy hopped on Phresher's "Wait a Minute" and the cyberspace goes crazy.
At the stop of 2016, Remy guested on the remix of Phresher's "Wait A Minute." In her poetry, Remy's subliminal shots got more specific, as she leveled accusations of ghostwriters and breast implants confronting her notwithstanding unnamed foe. Fans on social media seemed to know exactly what was going on.
February 2017: Remy Ma gave us a reminder that when she beefs, she names names.
Remy and Fatty Joe stopped by The Breakfast Club earlier this year to promote their Plata O Plomo album, and Remy responded to a question about her lines on Phresher'due south remix. "Whenever I've had a trouble with any female in this unabridged game, I will say your name" she said. "I'm going to say your authorities. I'm going to wait information technology upwardly. I'm going to say your mother's name, your male parent's name, your child's name. I want you lot to know that I'1000 talking about y'all."
February 2017: Nicki released "Swalla" and "Brand Love."
On two guest verses, released the aforementioned solar day, Nicki seemed to reply to Remy. On Jason Derulo'south "Swalla," Nicki referenced the amount of time Remy had been out of prison, rapping, "I gave these bitches 2 years, now your fourth dimension'southward up/ Bless her heart, she throwing shots, but every line sucks."
Her verse on "Make Love" was a more direct shot. "Oh oh, yous the queen of this here?" she raps. "One platinum plaque, album flopped, bitch, where?"
Feb 2017: Remy dropped "shETHER."
Remy Ma properly ready it off by dropping "shETHER," a vi-infinitesimal diss track over Nas's "Ether" instrumental that begins with a pitched-downwards vocalism saying, "Fuck Nicki Minaj." Remy once more pointed to her earlier claims of ghostwriting and plastic surgery and claimed Nicki stole the "All these bitches is my son" line from her. The internet went crazy over the diss, while we all waited for Nicki to respond.
February 2017: Nicki posted some facts and figures to Instagram.
In a since-deleted Instagram post, Nicki responded by posting a screenshot of Remy Ma and Fat Joe's disappointing first week anthology sales. She then shared a video on Instagram, in which Beyoncé referred to Nicki as the "rap queen."
March 2017: Remy dropped her 2nd diss, "Another Ane."
After waiting days for Nicki to answer, Remy dropped a 2d diss rails, "Another One," which has since been deleted from the internet. "Waited four days, ma, where y'all been?/ I came hither in the 'rari playin' Lil' Kim," Remy raps on the song. "Don't know what made you lot think that you could fuck with Rem/ Simply I guess this is what I gotta do to brand ya spit."
The response to the rail online was overwhelmingly negative, equally social media characterized the song every bit Remy's failed attempt at going back-to-dorsum.
March 2017: Remy Ma appeared on Wendy Williams dressed in all-black
Remy and Fat Joe appeared on Wendy Williams, and Remy showed for the show dressed for a funeral. Remy fielded questions on the beefiness, and explained that Nicki had attempted to proceed her off of red carpets at award shows and by and large interfere with her career. When Williams asked her about her outfit towards the end of the interview, Remy replied, "My grandmother told me to never speak ill of the expressionless."
March 2017: Remy Ma said she's "not especially proud" of the beef
During an interview with BuzzFeed's Another Round podcast, published March 8, Remy Ma discussed life in prison house, her marriage, and the beef with Nicki.
"I really liked her just don't effort and come for me," Remy said. "It only bothers me that me picking apart some other female is what went viral. We could've washed this working together." When asked why she thought that didn't happen, Remy responded, "Information technology wasn't me, I merely think it would've been cooler if we came together and did something crazy and that'due south what everyone was talking about. I don't regret it, I'm but not specially proud of information technology."
March 2017: Nicki finally responded with "No Frauds."
Later on multiple weeks, Nicki finally delivered a lyrical response to Remy. On Thursday nighttime, she dropped iii tracks, and explicitly addressed the beef on "No Frauds," a track featuring Immature Coin cohorts Drake and Lil Wayne.
"Tried to drop 'Another One,' y'all was itchin' to scrap / You exposed your ghostwriter, now you wish yous were scrapped / Heard your pussy on 'Yuck,' I judge y'all needed a pap / What blazon of bum bitch shoot a friend over a rap," she raps.
Nicki besides took to Instram to share a note. "Young Money, we don't do diss records, we drop HIT RECORDS," she wrote, earlier calculation a challenge: "U got 72 hours to driblet a hit and I'll give u half a million dollars if u can book Any show or interview west/o mentioning the Queen name."
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Source: https://www.thefader.com/2017/03/10/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-beef-timeline-shether-no-frauds